As one of 32 competitors in the third round, Liem will earn a 16,000 USD bonus. He will next play defending European champion Vladislav Artemiev of Russia, who has an Elo rating of 2757.

The Chess World Cup 2019 is a 128-player single-elimination chess tournament held from September 9 to October 4, 2019. The finalists of the tournament will qualify for the Candidates Tournament for the World Chess Championship 2020.

The matches from round one to round six consist of two classical games with time control of 90 minutes per 40 moves plus 30 minutes for the rest of the game, with an increment of 30 seconds per move. The finals and the match for the third place consist of four classical games.

The total prize fund is 1,600,000 USD, with the winner taking away 110,000 USD.